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I think you're absolutely right about locking down everything with the bed on the truck. It would be easy to get things misaligned otherwise. My...
I made a little more progress on the truck bed this weekend. 1. I made the final adjustments and attached the bed side rails to the bed sides. 2....
Sadly the parts for 1940 pickup trucks are long gone. No bolt kits for the cab or the box to frame anymore. You can't buy door latches, window...
I will check again, but right now it looks like if my bed side sub-rails were parallel to the bed side front to back, I will have no gap between...
Also did you use the brackets for the rear stake pockets that go in the rear roll pan? I don't see them in your pictures but that may be because...
Those are great pictures, thank you! So for the bed side rail (riveted to the bed side) At the rear, the position of that rail to the bed side is...
I'm working on piecing together the bed for my 1940 Pickup Project. Its a difficult task when you don't have an existing bed to work from. The...
Thats interesting. I googled up the chassis engineering kit AR-2037 (No longer available) to see how they did theirs. Looks very similar except...
This thread is a couple years old, but I sure wish I had come across it before I ordered up parts. I ran in to the exact same problem as the...
Parts for the 1940 seems to be drying up across the board. I'm trying to find a hood handle for a 1940 Pickup, which was commonly available for...
How are things going with your build?
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